NEW YORK | 270 Park Ave | 1,389 FT | 70 FLOORS

[Amanita]

That old steel has some amazingly thick sections, I wish I could be there in person to take some detail shots.

[Mackensen]

The structure of the Seagram Building is similar to the old 270 Park Avenue Building.

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[SMCYB]

It’s huuuuuuuge!

[Matthew_Vansickle]

My uncle is working at this site, he’s at the demolition side as of right now. He said they are really strict with things like photos. The design that was leak could be the overall design or maybe not🤫 These cans were from 1957

[SMCYB]

The king can’t hold court with the quart.

[YIMHudson]

I bet those are relics from the secret MTA break room.

[SMCYB]

Ha! Back when you couldn’t tell the difference between beer and water. And nobody cared.

[GSPLover]

Ballantine, that brings back memories. I used to have an older cousin who practically mainlined that crap.

[Amanita]

Too bad, imagine the pics he could get. Too bad he can’t get us a few bolts or such from the original building. I’m guessing these date back to original construction.

[Amanita]

That’s so cool, I wish I could get a small piece of the steel. I’m not sure what I would do with it- make a small display piece out of it, or if it’s really good steel, eventually give it to a bladesmith and have them incorporate it into a knife or sword. Either way, something cool and worthy of the building who it came from.

[rbrosenk]

was by the site this afternoon (Sunday) and the old 270 appears to be fully demo’d to street level.

[robertwalpole]

Very nice!!!

[DeSelby]

The Madison Avenue public plaza

[robertwalpole]

Who is the landscape architect?

[Matthew_Vansickle]

Heard there’s gonna be a water feature🤫 this building is going to be amazing when completed

[Matthew_Vansickle]

The tower I heard will rise to around 1,425

[SMCYB]

From street level or sea level?

[Matthew_Vansickle]

I’m going to guess street level, it’s gonna be huge. Project commodore they’re aiming around 1,642 ish to max 1,646

[SMCYB]

Let’s hope so.

[Mackensen]

Now that the old 270 Park Avenue Tower is history, I’m starting the top 10 highest destroyed buildings in New York (not including the WTC complex).

Number 10: Manhattan Life Building 347 feet

Number 9: 60th Wall Street 352 feet

Number 8: Trinity Court 374 feet

Number 7: Knicherbocker Trust Company Building 380 feet

Number 6: Hannover National Bank Building 385 feet

Number 5: Savoy Plaza Hotel 420 feet

Number 4: National City Bank Building 432 feet

Number 3: City Investment Building 485 feet

Number 2: Singer Building 612 feet

Number 1: 270 Park Avenue 707 feet

The top 10 I have created with the database of emporis.com

Pic-Credit: Collection Mackensen